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A simple website stats counter is not enough if you are really interested in finding out information about your traffic. Certainly, a simple web counter will tell you how many people have visited your site, but that is it. If you are trying to gain real information, you will need to have a web counter that does more than just count. Read the following reasons why you need more than a simple counter for your website.

Reason #1 - Time

A simple counter tells you how many visitors you have had in total. This is interesting information, but it is really not helpful overall. You also want to know what time people are visiting your sites, whether it is at night, on weekends, in the morning, and to know in general when your web pages are experiencing traffic and when they are not. Also, you want to know if these are new visitors or return visitors, a simple counter is not going to provide you with that information.

Reason #2 - Where Your Traffic Comes From

Another reason a simple site traffic counter is not enough is because you want to know where your traffic is coming from. For instance, if all your traffic is coming from Google and AltaVista then you might consider marketing to other search engines as well to get more traffic. Also, are people responding to e-mails, affiliate programs, or other types of advertisement to get to your site? All of this information will help you create a better site and make more money.

Reason #3 - Who Your Visitors Are

A simple counter is not going to tell you who your visitors are or how they found you. This is really important information because it lets you know what marketing techniques are working for you or not. You want to know what keywords are used to find your website, what links are being clicked on to bring you more traffic, what search engines are being used, and all the detailed information that helps guide you in your future marketing campaign. As you can see, a simple counter is not enough if you are interested in making the most of your marketing and your business.

Reason #4 - Equipment

This might not seem like an important thing to know, but it really is. With a professional counter you will be able to know which browsers and equipment, including screen sizes that the majority of your traffic is using. When you know this information you will better be able to design your website to reflect your customers’ equipment and browsers so they can view your page as best as possible.

If you really want to have the best site for your visitors and get the most traffic and make the most money possible, you will not employee a simple counter on your website but will take your success more seriously.

These days internet has emerged as both, a market and hub for marketing. Unlike the ‘brick and mortar’ world where large manufacturers manage to squeeze out the market bases of smaller companies, the internet provides haven like the free traffic exchange. They are extremely useful to those product and service providers who do not have the advertising budget to compete with large corporations.

Free traffic exchanges can be described as opt-in-clubs, which only other manufacturers of products and services can join. By joining these exchanges, a member is obliged to look at other members’ web pages. To gain membership you have to submit in your website which then goes into rotation with the hundreds and thousands of websites already registered with that particular traffic exchange. (This works best for people with high-speed internet connection.)

These exchanges are generally of two types - auto surf and manual. In the former, the exchange automatically keeps on flipping the pages in the web browser. In a manual exchange you need to click on a graphic or banner control to change pages. Most exchanges operate on the credit system. You gain credit by spending time (for example, 30 seconds) on a particular website. The more the number of sites you spend time on, the more your credit. However your credit gets reduced when another member visits your website. With increased credit your website goes into heavy rotation insuring a more effective and wider reach. You can easily register with these exchanges. Most just request some personal information and your URL.

However, you have to be quite alert in choosing a traffic exchange that would suit your business needs. Select one with many members as this helps in getting more exposure. One factor that is conducive to an effective exchange is demography. You should insure that your business is similar to those available on the exchange. Suffice it to say that a manufacturer of handcrafted china won’t get out of an exchange dominated by marketers of leather goods. The drawback of this is that in an exchange where everyone is offering similar services, you would have to work harder to insure that your site does not get lost.

For beginners it is always a good idea to join a few exchanges of both auto run and manual varieties. You can survey the sites and then decide which works best for you. However, it is the manual ones which are better in the long run because the possibility of actual sales is much higher. One of the tricks of the trade is to use a multi-tab web browser. The browser continues to run several websites in multiple tabs while only one window is open for viewing. You can easily surf many exchanges at the same time in this manner.

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People who make the most website income are the people who get high traffic to their website. You drive more traffic to your site increase your website income.

We will describe how to convert untargeted hits receiving from traffic exchange program to targeted hits.

Quality of hits receiving from traffic exchange program is very low. But using my tips you will able to convert untargeted hits to targeted hits.

My idea described below step-by-step:

1.Register best traffic exchange program
2.Register best three banner exchange program (1:1 exchange program). Banner exchange program provide targeted hits to your website.
3.Design very attractive banner for your website and upload to banner exchange program.
4.Add three banner exchange program code to your webpage
5.Earn credit using traffic exchange program and redeem it to your website. If you get 100hits to your website using traffic exchange program and redeem it to your website. If you get 100 hits your website using traffic exchange program. Each your banner exchange program earns 100credits.
6.Redeem credits earned by banner exchange program to your website. Your banner displays 300 times on other website. If your banner very attractive your website get high targeted hits. For Example: Your banner receive 20% click, your website get 60 targeted visitor using 100 credits of traffic exchange.

If you earn more credits your website get more traffic.

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I have talked with tons of frustrated webmasters that struggling with getting a decent Page Rank from Google. Over and over I read in webmaster related forums how hard people struggling to get traffic to their site and a decent Page Rank. In fact I used to struggling with this myself. However, after 3 years plugging away at trying to earn affiliate commissions and provide my family with extra income from my online business ventures I have finally developed a no fail formula. I have used this formula to repeatedly bring a brand new website to a Google Page Rank of 4 in a month sometimes two.

I will tell you honestly from the beginning that there really is no secret to this formula and it is something that you can easily learn. Do not listen to all of the internet marketing gurus who tell you that there is some hidden secret to traffic generation. There really is no secret. However there are some tools and proven steps that you can take to explode the traffic and Page Rank of your site.

So you have gone to all the work of registering a domain, and setting up a site. Yet you are constantly frustrated looking at your traffic logs day after day because no one is coming to your site. Not even the popular search engine spiders.

Now just a little bit of advice read through this formula completely with an open mind. Don’t say to yourself oh I have heard this before or I have already done this. If you simply follow the steps as they are laid out in this formula for two months you will see results guaranteed.

Step 1 Submit Your Site
The fist thing that you want to do is get the search engine spiders to come to your site and start indexing it into their database. The best way to do this is build one way inbound links. The more one way links you have the faster you will get indexed. Also that faster your Page Rank will raise.

Now the reason that most people don’t do this is because it can be a boring task. Endlessly submitting your site over and over again to 200 or so directories is a real meanial task. You are constantly cutting and pasting the information over and over again until it feels like your head is going to explode from boredom.

I used to do this all by hand myself and take weeks to complete the whole list of over 200 directories that I submit to on a regular basis. It was so boring I would often give up half way through. You are likely to do the same. This is a task that could try use some automating to save time and money!

Step 2 Add Content
This sounds really simply and it is but it is the key. We have all heard over and over from almost every internet marketer worth their salt that “Content is King”. Well, this is honestly one of the only universal truths online. The more content you have on your website the more visitors you will have day in and day out.

One mistake that I see many new marketers make is going for the wrong keyword. They have a brand new site with a Page Rank of 0 and they are targeting high traffic and highly competitive keywords. Instead go for niche keywords or keywords with little competition for them. Typically I like to target a keyword that is getting at least 100 searches a month and had less then 500 competing sites. This is just a guide but it is a good starting place.

Once you have built the site up and have traffic coming in and a decent Page Rank then you can start knocking off the competition for the more competitive keywords. However, it is best to start with the low hanging fruit first. It is important to not let your ego get involved with this step. You have to humble yourself to go for a non competitive keyword.

By adding your site to one way non reciprocal linking directories and adding content to your site every few days you will have tons of traffic pouring in after just a month. I typically am able to get a brand new website with a page rank of 0 and 0 visitors coming to the site up to a Page Rank of 4 with at least 200 visitors a day coming to the site in about one month. This might not sound staggering but it is just the start and things quickly grow exponentially from there.

The only secret that I have if you can even call it that is to take action. So many people fancy themselves as internet marketers. They build a site or purchase a turnkey site and try for a week or two only be discouraged and give up. They then jump on the next bandwagon and spend money for the newest hottest script out there. If you are doing that you will just lose money and eventually give up all tighter on internet marketing. So take action and list your site in some directories today! It takes only a few minutes with the right software and by submitting to even 5 sites a day and writing one article or webpage a day you will soon be raking in the traffic and money! So stick to it and get started now

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You’ve got some content on your site. You are looking to get the word about your site out there. Getting a marked increase in web site traffic can be a challenging task for webmasters, especially aspiring webmasters. Internet traffic plays a huge role in determining the success of your web site.

Don’t have enough traffic? Then you won’t have enough opportunities for visitors to perform your most desired action. This action could range from getting your visitor to subscribe to your newsletter or to contact you for more information about your business.

So how do you get that increase in web site traffic you want? There are a variety of ways, both free and paid, to get more web site traffic. You could go about getting any type of traffic, but that wouldn’t help much unless it was targeted. Targeted visitors are more valuable. Targeted visitors come to your site with the right frame of mind. They are hoping that your site will provide them with the information they are looking for.

1. Search engines

Search engines can provide an enormous increase in web site traffic. Search engine spiders can find you through their daily travels on the web. However, it doesn’t hurt to manually submit your site to search engines. And if you want to increase the chances that you’ll be found in search engine rankings, read up on search engine optimization.

2. Link exchanging

When you exchange links with relevant, non-competing sites, you add value to your web site. If your visitors can’t find what they’re looking for on
your web site, your links may help them. And if you have only high-quality links, you’ll increase the chance that your visitors will come back to your web site.

3. Submit to directories

Submit to major directories like the Open Directory Project and Zeal so that your web site becomes more visible. Also submit to themed directories with topics relevant to your web site. Smaller directories may not be too beneficial in terms of web site traffic but they can give you more inbound links.

4. Pay-per-click advertising

Pay-per-click advertising can help you get more web site traffic. Pay-per-click advertising is a popular form of advertising where you pay for an ad to be included in specific search engine results pages. It’s easy to lose money with this type of advertising so get a guide. Pay-per-click advertising can deliver targeted traffic to your site as interested visitors click on your ad. Make your ad specific and bring them to a relevant page on your web site.

5. Submit articles

Write excellent articles about your web site’s topic. Articles can increase your reputation and establish you as an expert in your field. Or they can shine a negative light on you if you submit total garbage. If your articles keep readers interested, then they may want to visit your site for more information.

6. Word of mouth

Tell everyone you know about your web site. If your web site is excellent or stands out from the crowd, the word will spread as more and more people hear about it. If it works, the effect can be huge. So do whatever you can to mention your site in your daily contact. For example, add an email signature to promote your web site.

7. Traffic exchange

You have to be careful with traffic exchanges. Some programs tend to be very untargeted as they simply show pages to members. However, there are programs that can bring in more targeted visitors. Some programs let you show ads so only visitors who are interested will come to your web site.

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Not a day goes by that any serious website owner doesn’t wonder how to get more traffic to their site.

This intense desire to generate more clicks makes virtually any online entrepreneur easy prey to many of the traffic schemes and scams that pervade the Internet like conmen on a carnival midway.

Promises of fast traffic and big bucks often separate even the most savvy business person from their money because they want to believe the promises made by these traffic hucksters.

However, rather than thinking “complicated equals better” in the traffic game, the best website traffic sources rate extremely easy to separate from the useless garbage traffic.

Fact: “Good Traffic” equals “Targeted Traffic!”

That means the visitors come as a result of desire to find out more on a specific, niche topic, not as a result of “exit” traffic or membership in a “safe” list where members simply pitch each other in an incestuous spam fest.

Good traffic comes from people clicking links on topics targeted to their interests and getting directed to a website containing information they want and expect as a result of clicking the link.

Bottom line, when you get right down to it, the best, most dependable sources of targeted traffic come from links that people click.

So, next time you’re considering spending money on a traffic source, understand that unless it involves a targeted link that a targeted visitor can click to get to your website, think twice before opening up your wallet.

To my knowledge, only three ways exist to get a link to your site: buy it, “voodoo” it, or grow it.

** Buy Links**

Buying links actually rates the fastest way to get traffic to your website.

You simply sign up for Google AdWords at Google.com or you open an account with Overture.com.

You then run ads with a link on those sites and any time someone clicks the link, you pay for the click through a relatively straightforward bidding process based on the popularity of the keyword.

You can also buy links in ezines, newsletters, and on other people’s website either on a per-click basis, for a period of time (a week or month), or in exchange for paying them a commission if a sale gets made as a result of a click on the link.

** Linking “VoodDoo” **

Linking “voodoo” refers to attempting to manipulate the search engines into displaying links to your website.

You can find a large number of automated software programs online at any given time that will claim to help you get more search engine traffic.

Depending on the intensity of competition in a specific market and the fact that search engines change their rules frequently, pursuing search engine links this way can quickly turn into the online equivalent of Alice chasing the rabbit down the hole.

** Grow Links **

I personally prefer this method to get links to my websites: growing them.

The best type of link to get involves one person telling another person, either explicitly or implicitly, they should click the link and visit the site at the other end.

One way to do this is simply to exchange links with another site which targets the same audience as your site.

You can manage this process manually or use one of the many software packages that will mange the process for you.

A search on Google.com for “reciprocal link manager software” yields a good start.

The easiest way to grow a link is through using articles other people post on their websites which link back to your website.

The reason articles work so well for “growing” links involves the numerous ways in which articles get distributed online, each of which can create dozens, hundreds, even thousands of different links back to your website by publishing a single article.

In fact, the following represent only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the places you can grow links by publishing articles online.

~ Blogs - Your articles can not only appear on your own blog, but get posted by others on their blogs with surprising ease.

The links in these articles can point directly back to your website.

~ Article Directories - Article directories such as IdeaMarketers.com abound online.

They not only provide an easy way to display your articles to allow others to pick them up for posting on their websites, but also in and of themselves attract readers searching for content.

~ OPS (Other People’s Sites) - Popular websites like WebProNews.com attract repeat visitors by offering targeted content to their readers.

Since they can’t produce all the content themselves, they publish articles created by others. Links from these sites can bring a steady stream of targeted visitors by giving you targeted exposure.

~ Ezines - By getting your articles published in other people’s ezines, you can get a link on the most valuable real estate online, a targeted prospect’s email “inbox.”

Many ezine publishers run articles written by others to their targeted readers, and your link in the resource box can bring you a veritable avalanche of targeted site visitors when hundreds, even thousands of people receive your article at the same time.

Whether you choose to buy them, “voodoo” them, or grow them, getting targeted links to your site posted on the Internet represents the absolute best way to get steady traffic to your site.

Though not as fast as buying them or as exciting as trying to manipulate the search engines, growing links with articles gives you a long-term, dependable presence online.

Copyright 2005 Jim Edwards

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This is the 3rd day of “Free Traffic Course”.

This day will be devoted to a very important strategy of getting free targeted web site traffic - link exchange.

Link exchange is a very powerful technique to rise the status for your web site. But before starting to speak about link exchange, several words should be said about PR or page rank of the web site.

The term page rank was introduced to wide online audience by Google - the search engine that enjoys the most popularity with web site users. Today this search engine offers 8,058,044,651 web pages for search. Google is used by online visitors worldwide. Let’s be fair - today Google is the leader among search engines. And catching up with the leader is still a dream for other search engines. That is why everything used by Google is of great importance to web site owner - Google gives targeted traffic.

So, page rank is a kind of status that Google gives to all web sites. Page rank “0″ means the lowest status, no status at all. “10″ is the highest mark. It means users really flood your web site. You can pack traffic in Christmas boxes and send them to children

Why is page rank critical for getting targeted visitors? When user makes any search in Google, the search engine “checks” all web sites in its database. The web sites that have bigger page rank for the submitted keyword have bigger chances to get to the very top of found results. Would you like to be among first 10 web sites found for “car insurance”, if your web site is specializing in this business? Surely you would. So, page rank is crucial for your web site.

LOOK HOW LINK EXCHANGE EXPLODES YOUR PAGE RANK.

Google algorithm takes many factors into account to give every web site its page rank. One of them is - how many web sites in your niche have links to your web site. Please remember that links should be from your niche - they must be relevant; the web sites must have the same niche keywords in their meta data and descriptions that your web site has.

If this rule is valid, then page rank magic with link exchange starts working for you. If the web sites (who have links to your web site) have bigger page rank, Google rises the page rank for your web site as well. The more links your web site has on other web sites with high page rank in your niche, the bigger web status you get from Google. The bigger are your chances to get more traffic of targeted users.

This link supporting scheme looks like a cowboy western movie. Picture it: a band has entered the town. They say “Let’s do some shooting.” You are only one with a gun in the hand against the band; the band has dozens of people - they laugh at you. But then a comes your friend with a rifle and says, “Don’t worry. I’ll cover your back.” And then another friend, then a neighbor, his two sons, the guys from the farm. You look behind and see - wow, there about 80 people who took their weapons to fight with you. The band looks for a taxi - their business is over.

The same happens with link exchange. Google has no relation to bandits, of course. But when your web site has a link exchange support from other web sites in your niche, Google awards you with high page rank. This is not a very fast process, but indeed it is guaranteed.

HOW FREE TRAFFIC SYSTEM AUTOMATES YOUR LINK EXCHANGE CAMPAIGN.

Link exchange is not hard: you email to the web site owner in your niche, offer to exchange links - your link is pasted on the web site of directory partner, the link from your partner’s web site to your web site. The links are placed into special directories that are usually named “Links”, “Exchange Links”, “Link Directory” or something similar to it.

But when you do it manually, it takes much time. You need to find a proper web site for link exchange, email its owner, put your link and place the partner’s link, build the category of links, name them, provide description to all links for better optimization to search engines - you see how much work should be done?

Well, you can pay others for this job. But the cheapest price for link exchange would be $200 for 50 links! Come on, why should you pay for it…

WHEN FREE TRAFFIC SYSTEM DOES IT FOR FREE AND ALMOST AUTOMATICALLY?!!

Free Traffic System has a module that is called “Directory”: this module manages all the work for you.

The stages of work with directory in Free Traffic System are simple:

1. Spider (look day 2 of “Free Traffic Course”) automatically finds niche targeted web sites for your link exchange and emails your offer for link exchange to their owners.

2. Directory module fully automates the creation, naming, submitting of description and all other aspects of running a link exchange directory on your web site.

Actually everything is over, now you have the directory. But just have a look at additional benefits that Free Traffic System Directory module gives its users:

- directory can be multilevel with as many categories inside as you wish;

- you can build your directory tree the way you wish (the deeper is the directory system, the better for search engines);

- you can choose an option to name all categories of the directory, using the keywords found by your spider (this is highly appreciated by search engines);

- you can search, edit and add new web sites and categories to your directory;

- you can automatically check if your link exchange partner still has your link on the web site; if not, you partner will get automatic message saying to put the link back;

- you can see detailed statistics about new users, web site, easy selection of statistic display periods;

- you can add AdSense and AdWords;

- edit top, bottom and side columns for the directory;

- the users of your directory can login to their personal directory area and get directory news, use forum and chat (just imagine what a powerful advertising tool you give them, and this will bring you more traffic).

And now breathe for a while and keep it in mind - this is only one module of Free Traffic System. Do you see how much time and money it saves you? Do you see now what is the unlimited power of free targeted web site traffic? And you can see more about the potential of Free Traffic System modules, features and option on the web site: http://www.FreeTrafficSystem.com

Or you can wait a little and read the 4th day of “Free Traffic Course”. And use the opportunity to get wiser with professional info and tools for attracting and increasing free targeted web site traffic automatically.

Nickolay Bokhonok - CEO And Owner Of DesktopMoney LTD. Inventor of Internet marketing software and scripts. Successful Internet entrepreneur. Learn more about web site traffic building strategies, tips and tools at Free Traffic System web site.

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More and more webmasters with sophisticate programming skills are using customize programming script to automate their work for maintaining websites content and driving traffics to websites. As clearly as you can notice, increasing numbers of improved programming scripts are in the market right now that look just like an-office-in-a-box. Talk about the magic touch with just a few clicks, these scripts are designed for non-programmers and are highly beneficial for marketers who wants make their online marketing go viral.

This method has been developed in the past few years and it has been improving throughout the years. Many success stories have spawned from this traffic driven method, which make use of the tendency of visitors to share contents that are informative, useful, entertaining or amazing.

This form of marketing strategy is typically low cost or even free to use it. Most people find it amazing because it leverages the work from visitors, never the hard work of webmaster alone. All websites would greatly benefit from viral marketing strategy.

Introducing - the lengendary ‘tell a friend script’.

This is an easy viral marketing method for web marketers. It is a very simple programming script that any online marketer can install it at any websites in less than 5 minutes. Visitors can now easily send email message to their friends, sharing what great information they have found.

The basic feature of a ‘tell a friend script’ is wherein a visitor may insert name, email address and friends’ email addresses. When friends receive the email, they wouldn’t consider it a spam because the sender is a friend they know and trust. With 0% chance of blocking such email sent by friend they knew, this allows a wider spreading of this marketing method.

There are many sites that provide free ‘tell a friend script’, which you can download them at http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Recommendation/index.html. In fact, there are over hundreds of such scripts to be used for free. But to achieve the dynamic traffic driven effect, putting up unique and original content in the website is still the golden key for this method to work. There’s no shortcut to this method, it all depends on the hard work you spend on putting up great and useful content for your dear visitors.

Surely enough, if you have great content in your website, tell a friend script will boost up the traffics to your website.

Edwin Lim is a freelance copywriter living in Malaysia. You can visit his Website at www.webblogerz.com

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Are you one of those people who are already fed up on how to earn profit online? Or are you one of those who cannot seem to have the best traffic on their site no matter what they do?

All of these things are boiled down to the fact that you are not getting a good traffic or none at all. The thing is, getting traffic seems to be the most important thing in the world of online business nowadays. People know that getting a good website is next to nothing if they dont get good traffic.

Getting good traffic is equal to getting good profit. This is because with good traffic, more and more people will be visiting your website. Once they get to see the good ness you have on your business, there is a higher probability that they will buy your products or services.

Simply put, you can never earn profit if you dont have people shopping around on your website and see if theres anything that they can make use of. Thats why generating traffic to your website is really important.

However, there are people who seem to misunderstand the concept of generating traffic. In spite of the many efforts they make to generate traffic, nothing seems to work.

If you are one of those people who are in this situation, its time for you think things over and analyze whats really required to easily get traffic top you website, not just for the time being, but forever.

For so many years now, businesspeople are trying to decipher the easier technique on getting a targeted traffic without having to spend more money or not spend at all. There are techniques that generate profit, but in the end, it turned out to be a fad only.

Hence, the best thing that will generate traffic easily and permanently should be based on the following factors:

1. People should find it beneficial

In order to entice people to visit your site, they should find the driving factor beneficial. Before they get to give you the value that you want, you should first give them something valuable.

2. People should find it informative

Since the advent of information technology, people had become hungry for information. Thats why the very reason why people browse the Internet is to get as much information as they can.

Hence, there is an inclination that people will only respond to something that is informative, something that would teach them how to solve lifes petty problems, and something that would teach them how to do things right.

So, what is this something that would easily generate traffic to your website forever?

Its the articles!

Since the advent of printing technology, articles, journals or any printed material has long been considered as a very powerful media tool to inform, entertain, and enlighten people. It has been well accepted that words can make or unmake a person, a business, or a product.

For this reason, the world of online business has realized its greatest potential when they have employed the services of articles as one of their marketing strategy. For those who have already incorporated the concept of writing articles for their business, they have seen the tremendous growth of profit through the utilization of articles.

One of the greatest things about article writing is that people love to read them. They feel gratified whenever they read something from the Internet.

And because of these articles, the Internet has been acclaimed as a pragmatic tool in providing different types of information. People tend to resort to the Internet whenever they want to know the answer to their problems or simply to teach them how to do things right.

Moreover, generating good traffic is not mainly constrained to writing articles and submitting them to different websites or article directories. You can still have better chances of increasing your traffic by allowing other websites or business to use your articles.

The mode of traffic generation today is based on the fact that most webmasters are finding articles that they can use to sustain their needs in getting a good rank on search engines. In this way, you do not only get better traffic but you also help other business earn their benefits as well.

Best of all, everybody is gaining something from it. Through articles, all of the aspects of online businesses are encompassed by the give and take relationship.

Hence, it is more permanent than any marketing tool ever created. This is because if everybody is gaining something from it, the more it will last.

So, if you really want to generate long-lasting traffic to your website, start making and using articles NOW!

Getting visitors to your web site is not one of the easiest
things to do especially if you’ve only just set up your web
site. The trick here is to find as many ways as possible to
get the visitors, that do visit your site, to come back
again and again.

Here are 8 ways you can achieve this:

1. Start a blog

Yes, everyone else, including my grandmother, has a blog.
You should start one too. A blog is a great way to get your
visitors to return to your web site. Especially if you
frequently update it with entries that are relevant to your
visitors’ needs. And also that occasional odd entry on
what’s happening in your personal life. A blog can greatly
increase the personal touch of your web site. And your
visitors are more likely to come back.

2. Start a forum

An active discussion forum may be all that you need to
attract repeat visitors to your web site. You’ll generally
get two types of visitors to your active forum. a) One who
seeks help and b) one who provides help. If your forum is
active with these two types of visitors, you can almost
guarantee repeat (as well as new) visits for many times to
come.

3. Provide a free useful tool

Every one loves free stuffs. Try and provide a free online
tool, that’s hosted on your web site of course.If your tool
is very useful to your visitors, they will come again and
again to use this tool. Example of tools include a banner
creator, web site popularity checker, or html generator etc.

4. Free Stuff

Don’t just stop there. People really love to get free stuff.
List free stuff on your web site. It could be software,
services, sample products, e-books etc. The freebies should
be related to your web site topic. Keep the freebies coming
and your visitors will return regulary. You could maybe add
a monthly freebie to your site.

5. Encourage feedback

Have a section on your web site or open a forum especially
for visitor and subscriber feedback. You could write a small
line at the bottom of the articles on your page to invite
readers to leave feedback about the article. Or get your
subscribers to leave feedback on your ezine topic for that
month. Make sure you reply to their feedback. Not only will
this increase repeat visitors to your site, but you’ll also
have happy subscribers.

6. Publish an online version of your ezine

Though email ezines are popular and wide spread, you should
also publish an online version of your ezine at your web
site. There are bound to be some subscribers who would
prefer the online version. This would bring them back to
your web site.

7. Original Content

This is by far the best way to get your visitors to come
back for more. Give your visitors content they can’t read
anywhere else. I’m not saying all your content has to be
100% original, but a portion of your web site should have
original information. People will usually read information
they haven’t read before.

8. Prize Drawings

Hold an ongoing prize drawing on your web site. The prizes
should be something of interest or value to your
subscribers. Most people who enter will continually revisit
your web site to get the results.

There you go. 8 ways to get your web site visitors coming
back for more.

Bina runs the WebSite Workshop http://website-workshop.com, a membership site filled with tips, tools and tutorials for the novice webmaster. Subscribe to her free ezine ‘WebBriefcase!’ and get your free 7 part course on “How to Build Your Own Web Site in 7 Easy Steps” mailto:myows@ITbizinfo.com